Cooker



0. FISHER.

Feb. 27, 1923.

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COOKEH.

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j yUNITED STATES PATEl5 lT` ()FFCE.y

OLIVE rIsHEa, or TIrfron, INDIANA, AssIeNoR or `'orne-armar 'roger/IMA nanna', or ,OTTERBEIN, INDIANA. f f o y oooKER.

To ZZ whom it may conce/m' Be it known that I, OLIVE FISHER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Tipton, in the county of Tipton and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cookers; and Indo declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the arth to which it appertains, to make andjuse the same.

This invention relates to an 'improved cooker which resembles an oven and isv ada-pted for use in connection with a stove of the gas or oil burning type in which the cooker is placed upon the stove and is heated by the iiames from the 'burners of the stove. One object of the invention is to provide a cooker in which articles may be cooked by dry heat or by steam, one compartment of the cooker being provided for. cooking by dry heat andthe remaining compartment being` provided for cooking by steam.

Another object of the invent-ion is to provide an improved means yfor generating steam and admitting the steam to the steam compartment.

Another object of the invention is to so construct this cooker that the water'receptacle holdingthe water from which the steam is to be generated may ,form the base of the cooker, the water receptacle or base being connected with a steam chamber between the steanicooking` compartment-s by means of conduits positioned outside the body of the-cooker. y

Another object of the inventionis to so construct the .cooker that an outer jacket may be provided for enclosing the body and steam conduit,` theY outerjacket resting upon tliebase Vor water receptacle..

Another objectvof the invention is tos construct this -cooker that the outer jacketmay form forward walls for the cooking Cir along the line i-tiof Fig. 3.

Figure et is a vertical sectional view taken Figure 5 is a. vertical sectional view taken along-the line 5-5 of Fig. 3.` l

Figure -6 is a' transverse sectional taken along the line 6-6 of Fig. 5.

Figure I chamber.

This improved cooker is provided body portion' liaving a lower sect-ion land an upper section 2 separated from the'lower section by a steam chamber 3the steam chamber extending beyond the sides ofthe upper and lower sectionsv and also 'extend-` ing atthe rear thereof as shown in Figs'. 3 and 5. ,The upper steam cooking compartment is provided with a dish supporting shelf or platform 4 inthe present illustration, but this is notfnec'essaryv and the shelf will be removable so that when desired,.it

can be removed thus permitting tallV food receptacles to be placed in thecompartment. The steam cooking compartment l may also be provided with a shelf if so desired but a shelf is not illustrated.'` A fiooringl is provided within the body for the steam oook,- ing compartment 6 inthe upper portion and tits tightly within the body so that steam cannot pass down intothel lower 'compartment '7 where food is vto 'be cookedby meansl View is a perspectiveview ofthe steam with a of dry heat..v A. shelf 8 is shown inthis lower compartment 7, the shelf Sbeing removable if so desired. It will thus be seen that there has been provided a body having a lower cooking' compartment T where food lwill be cookedv by dry heat-,and `there has further been provided upper food, cooking compartments 6 and 2 in which food will be cooked by steam, the upper' vcomp'artments being separated by the steam chamber 3. This steam chamber is provided with a partition9 dividing the sameinto end compartments l() and 11, the. compartment l0 beingfprovided with outlet openings 12 communicating with thelower compartment -6 and 4the compartmentl 11 having openings 13 for communication with the upper. com-k chamber 3'. A lreservoir 17 -is provided at one side ot the base and communicates with the same as shown at 1S and this reservoir 17 is provided Withan open upper end having a head positioned therein so that when the water bottle 19 is put in place, water cannot leak from between the bottle and the reservoir. This bottle is engaged by a. support 20 and will thus be securely held in an Aupright .position and prevented .trom having any tendency to topple over.

The outer jacket 21 of the cooker vrests upon the base or boiler 14 and is engaged by the upstanding beads 22 so that this outer jacket will be prevented from accidentally slipping` out of place. lThe jacket may however i' be 'easily removed when desired by `grasping` the handle and drawing' the jacket upwardly. At Athe sides and back, the jacket extends inspaced relation to the walls of the body and this jacket is 'also spaced above -the top ot the body thus providing' an air chamber. The liront uf'all of the outer jacket pro-vides 'forward' Walls for. the ybody and the forn Ward Wall of the jacket is provided `with 'openings for communication with the cooking compartment, 'closure doors 24 rbeing provided to close the cooking compartments When the device is in use and having damp- Vers for permitting the escape of surplus steam and hot air from the compartments.

Then this cooker` is yin use, it is placed upon the stove 25 and Water Willbe poured into the reservoir until the reservoir 'and baser have been filled. 'The' bottle 19 will then be'lilledA and put in place as shown in Fig'. 3,' the Water from the bottle passing` doivninto the reservoir' as the Water in lthe boiler is heated andv passes up through the conduit 1:5 in the form ot' steam. This steam passes into theend con'ipartments ot' the steam chamber 3 and passes out through the openings 12 and 13 into the upper and lower steam cooking` compartments of the cooker. The food which is to be cooked by steam will be placed Withinthe upper and valve. A cooker has thus been provided in which al number of articles maybe cooked at the same time, some of the articles being cooked by dry -heat andfsome by steam.

l claim:

1. A cooker comprising a. body having a base constituting a water receptacle and having upper and lower steam cooking compartments and a chamber between the cooking` compartments having communication with the same apartition in saidlower compartment dividing the same into an upper steam cooking' chamber and a lower dry heat cooking chamber, and conduits leadingr from said Water receptacle outside said body and conununicating with said steam chamber.

y2. A cooker comprising a4 body having a base constituting a Water receptacle and having'upper and lower cooking compartments and a steam chamber between the 'cooking compartments divided intermediate its u'idth tov provide end compartments comu'mnicating' one with the -upper cooking` compartment and the second with the lower cooking compartment, conduits leading 'from said Water receptacle to the/end compai-(ments ot said steam chamber, and an outer jacket for said body.

A cooker comprising a. body including` upper and lower cooking' compartmentsya steam chamber bettveen said cooking-compartments having communication with the saine, a base for said body forming a water receptacle for holding Water to be boiled. steam conduits leading from said' base and communicating with said steam chamber` a jacket for said body positioned about the same in spaced relation and resting' upon said base, the base being' 'provided with an upsta'i'iding bead 'for engaging' the jacket and holding' the same against sliding' moven'i'ent upon said hasta,v anda Water reservoir having' conm'uinication with the interior of. said base.

4. A cooker comprising` a body including upper and' lower cooking compartments, a base for said body constituting' av receptacle for' holding` Water to be boiled, a steam chamber between said cookingcompartments having' communication with the same7 and 'mea-ns vtor conducting' stean'i from said base and feeding' the steam into said steam chamber.

' In testimonywhereof I have hereunto set my hand.

OLIVEy FISHER. 

